Outside the Beltway

Standard & Poor’s didn’t believe the Obama Administration’s argument that Washington would be able to fix the deficit. There’s no reason they should have.

President Obama is vulnerable, but he’s facing a GOP field that is underwhelming even for Republicans.

On Palm Sunday, French Christians stormed a museum and slashed Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ

We’re approaching the point where those job approval numbers start to matter, and President Obama’s are heading down again.

Arizona’s so-called “Birther Bill” seems to violate several provisions of the Federal Constitution.

Will the Ryan Plan ever be voted out of the House?

Can a candidate appealing enough to the base to win the Republican nomination beat Obama?

Rather than fighting over the remnants of the FY 2011 budget, the GOP should make a deal and get ready for the bigger, and more important, battle ahead.

Politicians in office have a nasty habit of behaving completely differently than they promise on the campaign trail.

Like all Presidents before him, Barack Obama is asserting the right to virtually unfettered discretion when it comes to military matters.

The U.S. seems to be on the verge of changing war strategies in Libya, even as it becomes clear that these rebels aren’t necessarily our friends.

The President’s winter polling bounce is gone, and he’s looking vulnerable again.

Presenting photo identification is not an onerous requirement for voting. But there’s next to zero evidence that fraud is a problem.

The race for the 2012 Republican nomination is missing the one thing that GOP nomination battles have almost always had, a frontrunner.

Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune posted a want ad for an investigative reporter and it’s gone viral.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

The uneasy coalition that coalesced around action in Libya will be strained by decisions to come.

Egyptian voters have approved amendments to Egypt’s constitution.

Shailagh Murray becomes the latest reporter to join the Obama White House.

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.

Regardless of one’s preferences in terms of endgame in Wisconsin, democracy will win out.

Republicans are starting to sour on Sarah Palin, meaning that they’re finally starting to catch up to the rest of the country.

Public support for the war in Afghanistan continues to plummet, but will that hurt the President when 2012 rolls around?

Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)

An update on Tunisia.

Egypt takes another step towards constitutional reform.

Scott Walker’s attempt to crush the Wisconsin public employee unions may be the first wave in a fight to elect Republican governors in 2012.

Nine years into a war that seems to be without end, it’s time to declare victory and go home.

The Constitutional Reform Commitee has finished its work and will report its recommendations to the military.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did not campaign on the union-busting package he’s proposing now.

Florida has again scheduled its primary ahead of the deadlines set by the Republican and Democratic parties.

A commenter asks, “Why does Wisconsin have a quorum rule if not for situations like this?”

Republicans won the right to govern Wisconsin. What does that mean for Democrats?

In the Middle East, protesters are marching for democracy. In the Midwest, they’re protesting against it.

President Obama isn’t unbeatable in 2012. but it’s clear even now that he’s going to be a far more formidable opponent than many Republicans seem to think.

Ten days is not a lot of time for constitutional reform.

Andrew Sullivan is finally fed up with Barack Obama.

What people (or transitional governments) say isn’t ultimately the issue. What they do is.